Energy-Saving Extractive Distillation Process for Isopropanol Dehydration with Propylene Glycol as Novel Extractive Solvent
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Abstract
The extractive distillation process using propylene glycol (IUPAC name: 1,2 propanediol) as an extractive agent for the separation of the isopropanol–water system was investigated in this work. A systematic procedure was set out to obtain the optimal design and process conditions for extractive distillation and solvent recovery columns using the PRO/II process simulator. Four thermally integrated flowsheets were proposed, implying the recovery of the sensible heat and latent heat from the hot streams in the process. To establish the economic feasibility of the proposed process, we calculated the total annual cost for all the simulated versions, and the proposed fully thermally integrated flowsheets could save up to 43.13% in terms of the utility costs and up to 15.57% in terms of the TAC compared to the conventional design. Thus, propylene glycol (PG) is found to be suitable as a new solvent for isopropanol dehydration, being comparable with other classical solvents used for the dehydration of alcohols.
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OpenAlex topics: Process Optimization and Integration · Advanced Control Systems Optimization · Extraction and Separation Processes
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Department of Petroleum Refining and Environmental Engineering, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, 39. Bucuresti Blvd, 100680 Ploiesti, Romania
Funding
Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
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